Alkaline Green Soup

Last month I traveled a lot, and often there were times when I didn’t manage to keep my diet on the usual path. The meal hours were changed, the quality of ingredients differed, and sometimes I indulged in some refined sugar treats – all these confused my body and it reacted with an acidic environment. After I came home and switched back to my normal routine and whole ingredients based diet, everything started to go back to normal. I drink a lot of lemon water, eat a lot of fresh vegetables, and I make this alkalizing green soup as often as I can to nurture my digestive system and help it to recalibrate.

Maintaining an alkaline balance is essential for our health, because acidity reduces our body cells’ ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, resulting in low energy production within the cells, along with a decrease in the ability to eliminate toxins, heavy metals, excess hormones, and sodium. Our cells will not have the necessary nutrients and energy to restore and repair the damage, and will slowly fall into fermentation and eventually into chronic diseases, like cancer. As our bodies need 20 parts of alkalinity to neutralize 1 part of acidity, it’s better to prevent it and to include highly alkaline foods into our daily diet. Avoiding stress, negative emotions, and toxic overload is also a way to reduce the risk of decreasing the alkalinity of your system.

Most vegetables are highly alkaline, but it very much depends on the soil where they’ve grown. This is why I always recommend choosing organic as often as possible, especially when you are trying to cure a disease by switching to a plant-rich diet. Consuming them fresh ensures that your body gets the maximum benefit from their alkalizing properties. Lightly cooking them preserves most of their nutritional value, and this soup is a great choice for healing your digestive system with the combined powers of different alkaline foods.

I agree that it’s always so good to come home after traveling where it’s so much easier to nourish and be healthy. Your soup is packed with so many good things and I love all of those shades of green! So pretty too!

That’s right Emily, this is why I always alternate traveling with longer periods of staying at home to regain balance and be fully prepared to embrace the next experiences and tastes to their best. Thank you for your nice words 🙂

It’s true that lemons contain citric acid, but their nutritional profile includes antioxidants and minerals which contribute to turning the body back to an alkaline status. Lemons are not alkaline, but have alkalizing effects.